Corporate Power publications

Impunity Inc.

Observatory on Debt in Globalisation (ODG) & Transnational Institute (TNI)
June 2013
Report
Forty years after Salvador Allende denounced corporate power at the United Nations General Assembly (December 1972), millions of people all over the world are involved in struggles against the human rights violations and the social and environmental injustice generated by transnational corporations.

A Landmark Victory for Justice: Biowatch’s Battle with the South African State and Monsanto

David Fig
Rachel Wynberg
May 2013
Book
Published by  Biowatch South Africa, this is a book about access to information, the right to know, and action in the public’s interest – a must-read for anyone campaigning for environmental or social justice.

State of Power 2013

State of power 2013
January 2013
Report
As the world's most powerful corporate leaders and richest individuals gather at the exclusive World Economic Forum in Davos, TNI offers a visual insight into who is dominating the planet at a time of systemic economic and ecological crisis.

Transnational Capital vs People's Resistance

Cover of the magazine, corporate gulliver being tied down by the people
June 2012
Report
How does transnational capital function? Where does it operate? What globalised logic does it follow? What is the magnitude of its abuses and its social, economic and environmental irresponsibility? And what challenge do we see emerge for us, the people?  

State of Corporate Power 2012

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January 2012
Report
Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

European Union and Transnational Corporations

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Brid Brennan
David Llistar
Jesús Carrión, Erika Gonzalez, Pedro Ramiro, Juan Hernández Zubizarreta, Tom Kucharz, Francesco Martone
November 2009
Briefing
Extensive documentation of the operations of the European transnational corporations in Latin America and the Caribbean and their systematic abuses of human rights is brought to the attention of European policy makers in the European Parliament Hearing held in Brussels on November 18, 2009.

Profit Before People and Human Rights

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Brid Brennan
David Llistar
Jesús Carrión, Erika Gonzalez, Tom Kucharz, Karen Lang, Francesco Martone
October 2009
Briefing
The report exposes the role of EU institutions in constructing a complex political and legal architecture which allows European transnational companies to operate with impunity in the region.

Transnational Corporations on Trial

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Wolfgang Kaleck, Miriam Saage-Maaß
October 2008
Report
This study analyses existing legal means of holding European transnational companies liable for extraterritorial human rights violations. The authors examine four representative legal cases against European companies in Latin America that revolve around problems typical in the region.

Dark Victory

Walden Bello
Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau
July 2008
Dark Victory reveals the roots of rising poverty and inequality in the South in a sweeping strategy of global economic rollback unleashed by the US to shore up the North's domination of the international economy and reassert corporate control.

Field Guide to the Global Economy

John Cavanagh
Sarah Anderson
Thea Lee
May 2005
This fully updated and expanded second edition of The Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy.